Treated royally, HM’s corgis . . .
Following my item about the Queen’s admirable frugality, i received a lovely letter from a lady called Elizabeth (no relation to HM) who lives in Hampshire.
Many years ago, she had an interview at windsor Castle for the position of Keeper of The Queen’s linen. Unable to take the job because of illness, she was, nevertheless, impressed by her tour of the royal laundry rooms.
‘i hope i am not breaking the official Secrets Act by revealing that there were linen sheets with the Crown emblem embroidered on them for the Queen’s use,’ she reveals, ‘ but everyone else had to make do with pink duvet sets, typical of a supermarket bed-linen pack.’
let them eat cake — and sleep on polycotton sheets! isn’t the Queen ruddy marvellous? Even better, Elizabeth reveals that when the in-house white Turkish towels were past their best, they were ‘cut down and re-hemmed to be used as small towels for the corgis — that was going to be one of my duties’.
Keeper of the Royal Corgi Towels! There are worse jobs out there.